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Great Depression

...Economists Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, in the classic study
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), argued that the death in 1928 of
Benjamin Strong, who had been the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1914, was a significant cause of this inaction. Strong had been a forceful leader who understood the ability...